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¡Three Amigos! (1986)

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A trio of unemployed silent film actors are mistaken for real heroes by a small Mexican village in search of someone to stop a malevolent bandit.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Landis
CAST:  Chevy Chase  •  Steve Martin  •  Martin Short  •  Patrice Martinez

A trio of unemployed silent film actors are mistaken for real heroes by a small Mexican village in search of someone to stop a malevolent bandit.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Landis
CAST:  Chevy Chase  •  Steve Martin  •  Martin Short  •  Patrice Martinez

Blazing Saddles (1974)

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A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mel Brooks
CAST:  Cleavon Little  •  Gene Wilder  •  Mel Brooks  •  Madeline Kahn

A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mel Brooks
CAST:  Cleavon Little  •  Gene Wilder  •  Mel Brooks  •  Madeline Kahn

The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)

The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Schlesinger
CAST:  Timothy Hutton  •  Sean Penn  •  Pat Hingle  •  Joyce Van Patten

The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Schlesinger
CAST:  Timothy Hutton  •  Sean Penn  •  Pat Hingle  •  Joyce Van Patten

Zoot Suit (1981)

Part fact and part fiction, Zoot Suit is the film version of Luis Valdez's critically acclaimed play, based on the actual Sleepy Lagoon murder case and the zoot suit riots of 1940s Los Angeles. Henry Reyna is the leader of a group of Mexican-Americans being sent to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Luis Valdez
CAST:  Edward James Olmos  •  Charles Aidman  •  Tyne Daly  •  John Anderson

Part fact and part fiction, Zoot Suit is the film version of Luis Valdez's critically acclaimed play, based on the actual Sleepy Lagoon murder case and the zoot suit riots of 1940s Los Angeles. Henry Reyna is the leader of a group of Mexican-Americans being sent to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Luis Valdez
CAST:  Edward James Olmos  •  Charles Aidman  •  Tyne Daly  •  John Anderson

Holiday for Lovers (1959)

Clifton Webb as a strict, conservative father heads the cast of this 1959 comedy, about an American family vacationing in South America. Directed by Henry Levin, the film also features Jane Wyman, Jill St. John, Carol Lynley, Paul Henreid, Gary Crosby, Henny Backus ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Henry Levin
CAST:  Clifton Webb  •  Jane Wyman  •  Jill St. John  •  Carol Lynley

Clifton Webb as a strict, conservative father heads the cast of this 1959 comedy, about an American family vacationing in South America. Directed by Henry Levin, the film also features Jane Wyman, Jill St. John, Carol Lynley, Paul Henreid, Gary Crosby, Henny Backus ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Henry Levin
CAST:  Clifton Webb  •  Jane Wyman  •  Jill St. John  •  Carol Lynley

The 3rd Voice (1960)

Marian Forbes has been having an affair with her boss and when he drops her for another woman. In an act of jealousy and greed she convinces an acquaintance to murder her former lover and then impersonate him just long enough to get their hands on a large sum of money.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hubert Cornfield
CAST:  Edmond O'Brien  •  Julie London  •  Laraine Day  •  Olga San Juan

Marian Forbes has been having an affair with her boss and when he drops her for another woman. In an act of jealousy and greed she convinces an acquaintance to murder her former lover and then impersonate him just long enough to get their hands on a large sum of money.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hubert Cornfield
CAST:  Edmond O'Brien  •  Julie London  •  Laraine Day  •  Olga San Juan

Death of an Angel (1986)

Grace, a priest, tracks her missing daughter to a religious community where the strange father Angel is keeping a wooden Jesus figure that sheds actual blood. When the cross is stolen, Grace decides to help out to get her daughter back.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Petru Popescu
CAST:  Bonnie Bedelia  •  Nick Mancuso  •  Michael Shannon  •  Alex Colon

Grace, a priest, tracks her missing daughter to a religious community where the strange father Angel is keeping a wooden Jesus figure that sheds actual blood. When the cross is stolen, Grace decides to help out to get her daughter back.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Petru Popescu
CAST:  Bonnie Bedelia  •  Nick Mancuso  •  Michael Shannon  •  Alex Colon